HOW YOU'LL USE IT
What's the most demanding thing this MacBook needs to handle?
Pick one or two. Even if it's just an hour or two a day, the heaviest workload is what should decide the spec — not what you do the rest of the time.
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Everyday & office
Browsing, email, docs, video calls
Creative work
Photo and video editing
Light coding
Scripts, web tweaks, AI coding tools
Serious development
IDEs, compiling, local servers & containers
Heavy pro workloads
3D, ML, video rendering
HOW YOU MULTITASK
How many tabs and apps do you usually have open at once?
This decides how much memory (RAM) matters — the more you keep open in the background, the more it helps.
A handful
A few tabs, one app at a time
A dozen or so
Several tabs plus a couple of apps
Way too many
20+ tabs, several apps, music or video running
All of it, all the time
Dozens of tabs, multiple heavy apps, background video — and you never close anything
WHAT MATTERS MOST
Drag to rank these. We weight the specs to match.
Grab a card and drop it where it belongs. Whatever sits first decides which row leads your final comparison.
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Most important on top
01
Battery life
All day, unplugged
02
Performance
Export, compile, render
04
Portability
Weight and footprint
SCREEN SIZE
Any preference on size?
Smaller means lighter and more portable. Larger means more screen real estate.
15″–16″
More screen, more weight
No preference
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NEW OR USED
Open to a used or refurbished Mac?
Used and refurbished MacBooks can cost 30–50% less than new. We'll surface both, or just one, based on your call.
New only
Straight from Apple or a retailer
Used only
Get performance at a deep discount
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HOW YOU'RE PAYING
Planning to pay outright, or use a payment plan?
A payment plan could be through Apple, a retailer, a credit card, or anything else. We only need the ceiling it puts on your budget.
MOST YOU'D SPEND, ALL IN
$1,800
Includes the used market, where the cheapest usable MacBook sits around $400.
NewUsed
$400$3,750
MONTHLY PAYMENT TO STAY BELOW
$90/mo
$1,080 over 12 months
NewUsed
$20$300
HOW LONG TO FINANCE